Passiontide is the new novel by UEA alumna Monique Roffey and was published by Harvin Secker last week. Monique was born in Trinidad and graduated from the English Literature BA at UEA in 1987. Her first novel Sun Dog was published in 2002. The White Woman On The Green Bicycle, published in 2009, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize and the 2011 Encore Prize. Archipelago, published in 2012, won the OCM Bocas prize, while House of Ashes was shortlisted for both the Costa Fiction Award and the OCM BOCAS prize. The Mermaid of the Black Conch, published in 2020, won the 2020 Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It was also longlisted for the OCM BOCAS prize, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Passiontide by Monique Roffey
